Events Calendar
Caribbean Diasporas, Film Series: "Legacy of the Spirits and Haitian Song"
February 28, 2008 ( 07:00PM - 09:00PM )
- Sponsor(s): Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Location: DeBartolo Hall 126
Featuring guest speaker, Karen Richman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
Karen Kramer's ethnographic films plunge the viewer into the worlds of Haitians. Haitian Song (1982) is an intimate portrait of life in a small Haitian village. Legacy of the Spirits (1985) portrays Haitian immigrants' religious practices in New York that inspire non-Haitians to join them.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Gender Studies, American Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, and the John A. Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning.